the pursuit of happiness

Exhausting attempts and patient awaiting.
The pursuit of happiness.

(Desires and ambitions. Facing the abstract)
Contemporary use of the abstract term „happiness" may be overwhelming and confusing. Through centuries of attempts at a definition and therefore its constant renewal its intellectual field became virtual. Today the idea of the desire to experience happiness or the pursuit of happiness sounds obsolete and romantic. Questions of happiness are rarely reasonably answered. Happiness is abstract like mathematics and as useful as their everyday use.

(Basic needs and unsatisfied appetites)
Nowadays welfare and satisfaction are within reach, so are feelings of emptiness and depression. Disposable happiness is automatically released when we feel fulfilled and comforted. Our welfare neither guarantees long-lasting hapiness nor gratifies. Society is divided between those addicted to pursuit of happiness and misery addicts. The pursuit of happiness signifies ambition and the ability to make a choice whereas those who are permanently unhappy lose their sense of freedom of choice.

(Echoes of beliefs and the declaration of secularity. A reward and punishment system)
According to common definitions, happiness isn’t simply everyday satisfaction. It must be deep, exceptional and a hard to achieve experience, similar to enlightment or the state of nirvana. We want to believe that our attempts will be rewarded or oppositionally we look to gain happiness through the avoidance of complex issues.

(Protest as an answer to expectactions and demands)
Formal „rights to happiness“ introduced by authorities are often counterproductive. The truth is there are a diversity of ways by which happiness is understood or pursued. Why does happiness seem to be coincidental? Can we earn it? Do we deserve it? What have we done to deserve it? The pursuit of happiness includes promise and longing. Utopia inspires. Promises and hopes are suspicious and we need to provoke a revealing of the truth behind them.

„Happily“, art can serve as a tool to reevaluate psychical and intelectual features, resources and products of culture. It recycles visions and images of happiness. It is able to create varied simulations of the notion of happiness and communicate its bipolar quality. Happiness is degraded, desired, idealized, persistent and vulnerable; it is present and continious…